This book has really great information on how to break through those "brick wall" genealogy problems. It's already proved useful to me after owning it a short time. Really invaluable, five-star rating stuff.
Unfortunately, I also think that this book suffers from overkilling the "sleuth" theme, and this is why my rating is only 3 stars. The frequent quotations from fictional detectives are really quite a distraction. My first inclination is to skip past them, but often the author actually uses them to make a point. You then have to interpret the quote of a fictional character when it would be much more straightforward if the author would make a simple declarative statement making the point she's trying to convey.
Before I purchased the book, I saw another reviewer mention that the detective quotes were a distraction. I didn't quite grasp the magnitude of the distraction, though. Some pages have six (or more?) different quotations on them, all assiduously footnoted. The author makes a point early in the book about the importantance of reading the footnotes, but most of them are noting fictional detective quotes! In my frustration, I started counting all the sleuth quotes in one chapter and finally gave up somewhere around 30.
I've learned a lot from Emily Croom's books and I recommend them. But I have to say that sleuth theme was major overkill in this book, and I hope it can be toned down in a future edition, because this book has too much good information to be buried in a metaphor!
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